Opinion

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Mr Mohamed Khan (former trade unionist) for his short but informative letter ‘This year’s May Day was a disgrace to the founder of the local movement’ (SN, 3.5.08).

Dear Editor, Corrupt GRA officers need to face the most harsh penalty since they are robbing the state of taxes when some of us have absolutely no choice but to pay a substantial amount of our meagre earnings in taxes.

Dear Editor, Recently, two incidents brought home forcibly to me the mistaken attitudes adopted by certain people, that nothing good has come out of Albouystown, or, in contradiction, that those from this community who have made good are likely to be ashamed of their roots. 

Dear Editor, The death of a woman in my village recently prompts me to highlight the plight of the widows, poor and now increasingly the middle class which is joining the poor, since the introduction of the unconscionably high Value Added Tax (VAT), and the recent incredible increase in rice prices.

The inexplicable behaviour of Burma’s generals in the wake of Cyclone Nargis has provoked a crescendo of outrage from agencies struggling to save the two million people stranded by the storm from starvation and disease.

Dear Editor, The blow-up over the possible misappropriation of funds is an indication of the backwardness, mixed with corruption and deceit in the electoral process.

Dear Editor, I wish to add my comment on a similar issue concerning parking brought up by G.

Dear Editor,In light of the denial by the Auditor General that GRA personnel have been co-opted into the multiagency task force investigating the Polar Beer scam, I would respectfully ask your reporter covering this story to find out from the said Auditor General since when it became necessary for the task force to require the expertise of GRA staff in conducting their investigations.

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Hinds responded to my question in the National Assembly about the high electricity rates, but nowhere in that response did I see a glimmer of hope as to when the rate paid by our poor people and our struggling commercial and manufacturing sectors will be reduced to a level which they can afford.

Dear Editor, In ‘Concerned about poll published in SN’ (May 9), Dr Anand Persaud’s questions about why the findings of the NACTA poll were published in Guyana and not published in academic journals as well as a few other comments took me by surprise.

Dear Editor, I want to thank Ian McDonald for continuing to enthrall me with his deep poetic musings.

Dear Editor, I was very touched by the letter from Christopher Ram in which he so eloquently reminisced on the feelings he and his family felt over the passing of Pops, their gardener.

Dear Editor, United Associates Security & Domestic Services Inc (UASDS) has a fortnight’s pay for temporary guards and overtime payment for permanent guards who worked from February 16-29, which has not been given to us.

Dear Editor, The letter in SN, by Clyde B Chakupeta entitled ‘Mugabe has made the same mistake as Ian Smith,’ (12.5.08) paints a picture of gratuitous violence perpetrated by Zanu-PF.

As we approach mid 2008, governments all over the world are becoming more conscious of the change of administration in the United States that will take place at the beginning of next year.

Dear Editor,  The PPP government needs to stop trying to win the PNC over and recognise that opposition political parties are not there to help the government of the day.

Dear Editor, I wish to utilise your letter column to thank the President of Guyana for showing concern for public servants by affording them some financial extension to their current salaries.

Dear Editor, The question of dual citizenship has arisen this time in Jamaica, a Caricom member country.

Dear Editor,I couldn’t help laughing out loud and then suddenly turning angry on reading your news item, ‘CANU staff who fail polygraph to be fired’ (May 10), attributed to President Bharrat Jagdeo.